Episode 33 - The Monster Pipe
The Alyeska consortium builds an 800-mile pipeline across Alaska.
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The Alyeska consortium builds an 800-mile pipeline across Alaska.
The hunt is on for Alaskan crude.
The long-awaited showdown over Iran unfolds.
Strange things happen when oil reaches stratospheric heights.
Cheap oil goes bust, for now.
Iran's "King of Kings" becomes the Guardian of the Gulf.
America's need for "gladiators" spells danger for the global economy.
OPEC in a world of cheap oil.
A "gentlemen's agreement" to change the world of oil as we knew it.
Venezuela’s hot house of new ideas about oil.
Operation Ajax and the coup that changed Iran.
Mossadegh wins his fight for nationalization, and Iran loses its democracy.
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